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Film: Documentary Up the Yangtze

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Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of China's Three Gorges Dam, where the now-plugged Yangtze river is radically redefining the country's geographic landscape. For Up the Yangtze, director Yung Chang spent 2006 filming life aboard a luxury cruise ship to explore how the waterway's new course is also redefining its surrounding social and emotional landscape. The film's focus — an impoverished peasant girl sent to work while her family flees the rising water — conveys the contradictory implications of the massive project. Chang's sparse narration leaves room for the human drama to unfold against the backdrop of the ominous dam.

– Catherine New

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